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title: Numbers 9:21 (JPS 1917) — And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed; or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. Who acts: cloud, children. Numbers 9:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Numbers 9:21 · JPS 1917

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And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed; or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

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**Who acts:** cloud, children · **What happens:** be, take up, journey, continue · **To what, where:** cloud

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This is Numbers 9:21 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:NUM:397
# text = And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed; or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	39	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cloud |  |  |  | from evening; morning | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take up** | past · passive |  | the cloud |  |  | morning |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **journey** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **continue** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | cloud |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take up** | past · passive |  | the cloud |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **journey** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְיֵ֞שׁ אֲשֶׁר־יִהְיֶ֤ההֶֽעָנָן֙ מֵעֶ֣רֶב עַד־בֹּ֔קֶר וְנַעֲלָ֧ה הֶֽעָנָ֛ן בַּבֹּ֖קֶר וְנָסָ֑עוּ א֚וֹ יוֹמָ֣ם וָלַ֔יְלָה וְנַעֲלָ֥ה הֶעָנָ֖ן וְנָסָֽעוּ׃

[Numbers 9:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.9.21/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:397` of Mova's parse database.

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